Hybrid image file is a standard CD-burnable image and also a raw disk image. - Can be burned to CD(RW) media using most CD-burning utilities. - Can be raw-written to a drive using 'dd' or similar utilities. This method is intended for use with USB thumb drives.

Re: 2012.10-1 archboot "2k12-R4" ISO hybrid images released

Thank you for your hard work.

I reinstalled my server about two months ago with 2012.08-beta and I chose to use btrfs for / and /home, but after one month, the system complained it had run out of hard disk - I asked around on the forum, but I didn't find a solution. So for the past month I have been looking for some time to reinstall again, using ext4 this time.

Yesterday I tried twice with the 2012.09-beta, but both times I ended up with an unbootable system: systemd complained about missing dependencies, dropped me into a recovery shell but would not recognize any keyboard input. That's when I saw there was a new version of the installer available.

About 10 minutes later I logged in on the new install. Flawless install using eth0/dhclient, ntpdate, GPT, auto-prepare for the HD, ext4, systemd, (only) base packages, grub(2)-bios. The only warning I got was that grub couldn't find a certain .img, but that was before the install of grub, so it is probably harmless noise.

I have lost a lot of (precious) time yesterday, but it is nothing compared to the time you devs spend over and over again to get it all working. Thank you for that!

VincentPS, it might still be relevant because I didn't check with 2012.10, but using the 2012.09-beta, I noticed that the mount options I specified for all of my mountpoints (discard, relatime), was used as the label for that device, and thus formatting that device failed every time. Auto-prepare worked like a charm.

Re: 2012.10-1 archboot "2k12-R4" ISO hybrid images released

zenlord wrote:

PS, it might still be relevant because I didn't check with 2012.10, but using the 2012.09-beta, I noticed that the mount options I specified for all of my mountpoints (discard, relatime), was used as the label for that device, and thus formatting that device failed every time. Auto-prepare worked like a charm.

Where did you specify the mount options? I don't think setup asks for them. It asks for options for the creation tool.

EDIT: The menu text in refind-efi 0.4.7-2 will be right aligned. That is due to a minor string formatting issue in rEFInd source which has been fixed in upstream git repo. Anyway this does not affect the working of refindx64.efi .

This doesnt work for me, when i select any of the options in rEFInd, i just get "can't load vmlinux... not found" errors. I adjusted the paths in the menu options in the conf file correctly (so it says /arch/boot/initramfs_x86_64.img instead of /boot/initramfs_x86_64.img) but that didn't make any difference? Do you have any ideas cos i'm tearing my hair out here.

EDIT: The menu text in refind-efi 0.4.7-2 will be right aligned. That is due to a minor string formatting issue in rEFInd source which has been fixed in upstream git repo. Anyway this does not affect the working of refindx64.efi .

I downloaded refined-efi, but when I tried to replace existing (USB)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi with /usr/lib/refind/refindx64.efi (I ran

cp /usr/lib/refind/refindx64.efi sdb/EFI/boot/boot.64.efi

) I got the error:

cp: cannot stat /ur/lib/refind/refindx64.efi: no such file or directory

Last edited by AlecB (2013-02-02 02:03:37)

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Re: 2012.10-1 archboot "2k12-R4" ISO hybrid images released

Re: 2012.10-1 archboot "2k12-R4" ISO hybrid images released

I just installed archboot (latest edition) on a 27" dual-core Intel Imac.The installation worked perfectly. When I start Arch starts running, messages fly by on the screen and then the screen turns black and the computer continues loading linux.

I can log in do pings, do pacman -Syu it all works but I am flying blind, I see just a black screen. I searched the wiki,forum and the general internet but all blackscreen occurrences seem during startup.